Joan O'Hara

Ellie (Hayley Atwell) es una joven que tiene que hacerse cargo de la residencia regentada por su hermana mayor durante las Navidades.

May, wrapped in tatters, paces back and forth engaging in conversation with the disembodied voice of her mother. In the second scene, May's voice becomes subsumed into her mother's. She paces ever more slowly as the play progresses, and the light dims so that by the fourth and final scene there is no trace of her

Meredith Sanders es una triste y solitaria escritora que regresa a su ciudad natal en Inglaterra por primera vez desde que tenía 6 años y fue adoptada por una familia americana que se la llevó a los Estados Unidos. Allí, decide buscar la tumba de su madre biológica y, para su sorpresa, descubre que sigue viva. Entonces, decide buscarla. Telefilme basado en una novela de la autora de best sellers de corte romántico, Barbara Taylor Bradford, y que no hay que confundir con el thriller de idéntico título que protagonizó Patrick Swayze. Protagonizan Melissa Gilbert, la inolvidable Laura Ingalls de "La casa de la pradera" y la veterana actriz británica, Jean Simmons ("Ellos y ellas").

Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early 1960s.

A comienzos del siglo XX, Joseph y sus dos hermanos malviven del cultivo de unas tierras que son propiedad, como toda la comarca, del poderoso señor Christie. Cuando el padre de Joseph muere en un accidente provocado por los hombres de Christie, el joven decide vengarse, pero no lo consigue. Poco después, para evitar un duelo, emigra a América, y en el barco coincide con Shannon, la bella hija de Christie. Nada más llegar a los Estados Unidos, a Shannon le roban todo su dinero; entonces Joseph decide protegerla haciéndola pasar por su hermana.

Jack Carnegie (Kevin Davis) is an American ‘heir-hunter’, whose job it is to trace unknown family members who should rightly inherit unassigned fortunes. He arrives in Ireland to find the sole heir to a fortune — Timothy Murphy. Murphy cannot believe his good luck and he goes out that same night, to celebrate with his fiancee, Brigid O’Toole (Emma Samms). On his way home he is attacked and murdered by a mystery assailant. Brigid is grief stricken, as is Jack — Timothy had no known heir, so he won’t able to collect his commission for delivering the inheritance to the heir.

Journey to Knock humourously follows three disabled men on their pilgrimage from the North of England to Knock shrine in Co. Mayo.

An IRA gunman on the run from the government meets an idealistic young woman and attempts to win her support for his cause.

This well-acted drama about an Irishman just released from jail is filled with rich characterization. The story is adapted from a stage play by Walter Macken who also plays the role of the ex-convict Paddo in this screen version. Direction is by J. Fielder Cook. Once Paddo returns home after being sentenced to five years for killing a man, his old friends try to put him back in their niche of local hero but Paddo will have none of it. He is disillusioned and changed. His son Willie (Arthur Kennedy) walks with a limp that keeps him too self-conscious to assert himself as he would like with the young woman of his dreams. While other people come in and out of Paddo's life, from his taciturn friend the trapper to the local tinker, it is Paddo's son Willie suffering from his own disability who makes the difference in his father's life.

Bridget Monaghan, a single mother who has had six children by different fathers, shocks the conservative inhabitants of an Irish village.